/lit/ - Literature

>welfare
>As far as the workers are concerned one thing, above all, is definite: they are to remain wage labourers as before. However, the democratic petty bourgeois want better wages and security for the workers, and hope to achieve this by an extension of state employment and by welfare measures; in short, they hope to bribe the workers with a more or less disguised form of alms and to break their revolutionary strength by temporarily rendering their situation tolerable. The demands of petty-bourgeois democracy summarized here are not expressed by all sections of it at once, and in their totality they are the explicit goal of only a very few of its followers. The further particular individuals or fractions of the petty bourgeoisie advance, the more of these demands they will explicitly adopt, and the few who recognize their own programme in what has been mentioned above might well believe they have put forward the maximum that can be demanded from the revolution. But these demands can in no way satisfy the party of the proletariat. While the democratic petty bourgeois want to bring the revolution to an end as quickly as possible, achieving at most the aims already mentioned, it is our interest and our task to make the revolution permanent until all the more or less propertied classes have been driven from their ruling positions, until the proletariat has conquered state power and until the association of the proletarians has progressed sufficiently far – not only in one country but in all the leading countries of the world – that competition between the proletarians of these countries ceases and at least the decisive forces of production are concentrated in the hands of the workers. Our concern cannot simply be to modify private property, but to abolish it, not to hush up class antagonisms but to abolish classes, not to improve the existing society but to found a new one.

>Yes.

sum up your favorite philosopher/writer in 5 words or less
i'll start with marx

>gibes me dat fo free

Read Marx.

>he's not a Marxist
For what reason?

Books that refute Marxism/communism? Everything I read on the internet (sans here and /pol/) but websites like Something Awful, Reddit, etc. have convinced me that it's the ultimate system of government and has never once been implemented correctly. Looking for books that dispel this

Post literary names for pets you have given or encountered.

Was invited over by my friend to garden with her the other day, and she has two cats, one named Joyce and the other named Big Chungus. She said her next cat will have an "ethnic name". Have our memes leaked into the normiesphere?